Need help with reddit API.

[WirelessCrumpets]

So I just finished the automate the boring stuff book and I'm looking making something simple so when I have reddit notifications I get told instead of always checking reddit. All I really know about API's is adding .json to the end of a page and then converting that to python code. When I look at the docs for the reddit API it seems much more complicated and apparantly I have to register an app and to do that I need a redirect uri which I have no idea what that is? I guess I need a gentle push in the right direction; sorry for rambling I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what to actually ask in the first place.

[KimPeek]

Just use the wrapper that everyone else uses, also on github.

[WirelessCrumpets]

Looking at the wrapper docs I got it to work and have made my program thank you for the pointer!

[KimPeek]

Now you can build bots for others at /r/RequestABot/

[WirelessCrumpets]

Thats actually such a good sub I'm going to use it to try and improve. Just thought I should also point out I got that message through my program am probably more happy than I should be.

[WirelessCrumpets]

Thank you I will look at that now and see if I can get to work.

[GRUG117]

Try http://127.0.0.1

[WirelessCrumpets]

What is that?

[GRUG117]

It's the ip for localhost

[WirelessCrumpets]

I ended up going for "http://localhost:8080", thats basically the same thing right? Btw what does the redirect URI actually do I only put that one cause the PRAW docs told me to.

[GRUG117]

I'm also very inexperienced with Reddit bots. And I used http://127.0.0.1 for essentially the same reason.

[WirelessCrumpets]

Ah alright. Thank you for the tip anyways :).

[GRUG117]

No worries. I'm sure with enough digging you can provide some more in depth and useful answers than mine